What do you use Windows on your OS X for?

[operator207]

Work. RAdmin, Office 2003 (no Mac version allowed per company policy)
I thought there was more, but ya, thats pretty much it. Thankfully I did not have to buy XP Pro and Office 2003. Work provided those.

 

[siorai]

Crysis
Halflife 2 Orange Box
STALKER
Bioshock
Call of Duty 4
Aliens vs Predator 2
Far Cry

 

[MattG]

OneNote, Access, Outlook (Entourage sucks...period), RDP (because the Mac version sucks), plus some apps specific to the school where I work.

 

[killmoms]

Random Password Generator Pro (wish I could find something like this for Mac)

As a point of interest, OS X has a built-in random password generator which is not quite as tweakable, but will create "random character/random word" passwords to a specified length. It's in Keychain utility, just create a new password item and click the button with a key on it. This will open up the password generator.

 

[steveza]

Windows server management tools (mmc's), Office 2007 as 08 is rubbish, my 3G usb stick works better with Server 2008 than OS X. I don't use boot camp as everything I need runs just fine under Fusion. I also do some application and group policy testing from time to time.

I'm still using a beta of RDP 2 which works really well under OS X but i do use the 2008 version from time to time.

 

[jeremy.king]

Visual Studio

 

[peterlobl]

adobe cs3 apps
qbooks
online banking cap one forces me to use ieeee
Access

 

[617arg]

Autocad............ and BeamCheck.

 

[riscy]

I find my Mac with NeoOffice handles docx ok. Only once has the formatting been weird.

On the XP machine I work I had to install a patch to enable it to read docx

EAC

Office - I need .docx support at the moment and 08 is utter tripe and I am not going to use some converters to change the file format everytime and deal with all the problems therein.

Fluent

Quite a few other programs that link to lab machines that don't have mac counterparts.

 

[n8236]

If I had the 2nd or 3rd gen mbps, I'd be using VMFusion (4gb ram) all the time. But since that's not the case, I reboot into XP for IT consulting while I use OSX for everything else.

 

[redwarrior]

quicken, not ready to spring for the mac version yet
publisher 2007
expression web - that's the big one

 

[MacHiavelli]

If only under Fusion you could associate an icon with a program to determine what opens: Mac or PC - that would make it a killer app.

 

[nikopolidis]

I am running Windows on my Mac thru Parallels Desktop and Boot Camp.
I use Parallels for working in such apps as Auto Cad, Adobe PhotoShop, Abby FineReader, Office apps (OneNote, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio). I know that there are Mac analogues for some of this apps but I just got used to these ones and I don't want to change them...
I also use BootCamp for gaming. I play such games as Fifa 08, Test Drive Unlimited, Bioshock, GTA, Desperados and different Economic strategies and Tycoons...

 

[mankar4]

3D pinball.

 

[Phil Lee]

I use Fusion to run Outlook 2007 to access my hosted Exchange server. I use that to access my email, contacts etc from home, work and using push email on my Windows mobile. I also use it to run a specialist engineering program which is developed by the company I work for. At the moment I only use Bootcamp when I want to use my scanner, a CanoScan 3000F, which is not supported in OS X.

 

[andy5000]

Through Fusion i use Microsoft Visual Web Developer for asp stuff. if only it was available to mac
Other than that just IE 6&7 to test sites.

 

[steveza]

If only under Fusion you could associate an icon with a program to determine what opens: Mac or PC - that would make it a killer app.

Judging by the number of people who can't survive without Fusion I think it's already a "killer app". This support (if I understand you correctly) is available in Parallels but I prefer the Fusion implementation of "windowed apps".

 

[andy5000]

i would say fusion is a killer app. i know i haven't tried parallels but i don't really have a reason, fusion does what i need.
I run fusion "xp pro" on my mbp's screen and mac os x on my 22" external and its like having 2 separate computers.

 

[peterlobl]

Do companies let you upgrade cross platform?

So when we shift to CS4 for example, can we get upgrade pricing?

Would save like, molto dolares

(old days when cd's first came out you used to get mac & pc versions in some offerings... Guess that was a while ago...)

 

[rrijkers]

Games, Games and Games. Games too.

Did I mention I use it for Games?

 

[Santa Rosa]

3D pinball.

Overkill!! lol

 

[DaveF]

MS Money 2003 in Parallels (still hoping for a good personal finance app in OS X)

Games in BootCamp

 

[jarinehart]

I use my Parallels XP for some of my job's windows specific software. I design A/V systems for a university and need to use control system software that they only develop for windows. Other than that everything else is handled in OSX. I really like the Coherence mode and the file sharing between xp and OSX so that I can work on just about anything at anytime. I'm really glad I convinced the powers that be that Parallels was a good purchase for me.

 

[anirban]

I have Windows installed using BootCamp. The main reason for me to venture into Windows partition is to play games.

 

[redwarrior]

i'd like to know what the differences are with parallels and fusion. i am running parallels, but i've only been using a mac for about 2 months and have no experience with fusion at all. I'm very curious, although, i have been able to do everything i need to do with parallels.